Satyajit Ray
NEW YORK: The Film Society of Lincoln Center will celebrate India’s greatest filmmaker and one of cinema’s greatest auteurs, Satyajit Ray, with Long Shadows: The Late Work of Satyajit Ray unspooling at the Walter Reade Theater in New York City from April 19 through April 26. The promised (and much-requested) follow-up to the 2009 Satyajit Ray tribute, Long Shadows includes all the films made by Ray in the autumnal years of his career.
Already an acknowledged giant of world cinema, Ray in these later works reveals a more meditative side: his brilliant powers of observation lead him to pare down his style, allowing his characters and the world to reveal themselves to us. Of special interest is The Home and the World, his final, wonderful adaptation of a work by his mentor, Rabindranath Tagore (whose 150th anniversary is being celebrated this year), as well as his final, luminous work, The Stranger, an extraordinary summing up of so much of Ray’s worldview graced with a sensational lead performance by Utpal Dutt.
Among the films to be screened are: The Branches of a Tree; The Chess Players; Deliverance (Sadgati); Pikoo’s Diary; The Inner Eye; Distant Thunder; The Elephant God; An Enemy of the People; The Golden Fortress; The Home and the World; The Kingdom of Diamonds; Sikkim; Bala; The Stranger;
The screenings are presented in collaboration with Columbia University with cooperation from the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project at the Academy Film Archive, the Film Foundation, the Academy Film Archive as well as to the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection at the Academy Film Archive.
India Post News Service
